Pancreatic Carcinoma in Brothers

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To the editor: We would like to report the case of a patient with pancreatic carcinoma whose two brothers died from the same disease.

A 54-year-old white man was admitted to our hospital in May 1981 with abdominal pain and jaundice. Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas with metastasis to the liver was found at surgery. A brother of the patient, a 48-year-old man with recent onset of diabetes, was admitted to a California hospital in July 1981 for abdominal pain and jaundice. Exploratory laparotomy showed metastasis to the liver and an 8 x 5-cm hard mass in the tail of the